Re: Possible new XProc 1.1 step: p:template

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>  <p:template match="...">
>   [XML goes here, with {} interpreted in both attr vals and text content,
>    and something like <c:copy select="..."/> recognised]
>  </p:template>

This is a totally different kind of thing. It's not an atomic or
compound step, it's more a sort of macro. That feels...tricky.

I'm a little confused about the match part and c:copy.

The match makes me think it's sort of mapped into XSLT somehow. The
c:copy makes me think that it somehow reimplements part of XSLT's
instruction set.

I wonder if p:interpolated-inline would get the job done?

<p:identity>
  <p:input port="source">
    <p:interpolated-inline>
      <document xml:base="{$computed-base-uri}">
        { $elem }
      </document>
    </p:interpolated-inline>
  </p:input>
</p:identity>

And doens't "{ $elem }" in there make you wish we had variables
that could contain items and not just strings :-P

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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